Corn-harvester.



No. 660.768. `Patented oct. 3o, |900.

J. U. FRY.

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llllll TIN-- UNITED STATES JOSEPH ULMSTEAD FRY, OF GREN-OLA KANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JAMES L. HART, OF SAME PLACE.

CORN-HARVESTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 660,768, dated October 30, 1900. Application iled February l2, 1896. Serial No. 579,039. (No model) To a/ZZ 1071/07/17/ t m/Cty concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH ULMSTEAD FRY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grenola, in the county of Elk and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and use-` ful Improvements in Oorn-Harvesters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in corn harvesters o1' gatherers; and it has for its object to provide a simple and cheap attachment which may be readily applied to the side of an ordinary farm-wagon and by which standing corn may be gathered and cut, one row at a time, and delivered or conveyed into the wagon-box as the team draws the wagon along beside a row of standing corn. The attendant sits in the Wagon near the machine.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination of parts, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings annexed to and forming part of this specification, Figure l is a side elevation of my improvement. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the elevating-belts. Fig. liis a detail view of the supporting-frame. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the cutter; and Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of the fender, the cutter, and the guard-arms.

Like characters of reference indicate like parts in the various views.

Referring now to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates the side of a farmwagon of known construction.

B represents the supporting-frame of my improved device, provided with hooks b near the upper ends of its side bars, adapted to be engaged over the top edge of the side of the wagon-body, as shown in Fig. 2, and when thus in place the side-board A is put in place and rests upon the hooks b, the said sideboard being provided with the depending springs A2, adapted to embrace the side of the wagon-body. The hooks I9 may also be engaged over the top of said side-board if necessary.

The supporting-frame B has at the bottom a thumb-screw or its equivalent X, that engages against the bottom of the wagon-box. `This supporting-frame B has its end bars arranged obliquely, as shown, and they are slot ted, as shown at a, in which slots extend the lugs or projections or analogous means a on the likewise obliquely-disposed bars Oof the sliding frame, which are adapted to be raised and lowered by the lever O', pivotally mounted at c' on the longitudinal barR of the stationary frame and connected by the link C2 A E is a supporting platform or plate mounted upon the sliding frame in any suitable manner. This platform or plate E at its outer and lower end is supported by the inclined brace-arm D2, detachably and pivotally connected at its lower end with the sliding frame and likewise at the upper end with the said plate E, near the lower end of the latter, as shown in Fig. 2. This plate or platform E may be further braced by the brace-arms d,

Aas shown in Fig. l.

F is a concave fender secured to the rear edge of the plate or platform E and extending a sufficient height aboveothe knife G to have the desired effect. The free end of this fender constitutes a guard. In front of the knife Gextendguard-armsff. These guardarms serve to conduct the corn or other material, which is received and embraced between them as the team moves the wagon forward, into and against the knife or cutter G, which is substantially crescent-shaped, as shown, and is secured to the lowerend of the plate or platform and has its back bearing against the inner face of the concave fender F.

Mounted on the plate E is the block H, which is stepped, as shown at h, and mounted IQO in these steps are the inclined shafts K, having their bearings in the plates E and 2, 2 and 3, 3 and 4, 4 and E, respectively, the longer shaft K being near the upper ends of the plat-es E and 2 and above the block H, While the lower set of shafts K have their bearings in the plates 2, 3, 4, and E at the stepped lower end of said block H, the plate 2 resting on the inclined upper face of said block H and the plates 3 4 resting on the stepped lower end of said inclined block H and projecting sufficiently far over upon their faces to form the bearings for the pulleys P and P'. The shaftKofthelowermost pulleyPzhasits bearing in the plates Ltand E, near the lower end of the latter, and is provided at its lower end with the sprocket-pulley M for the reception of the sprocket drive-chain N. 'lhe drivechain N is connected with a sprocket-wheel N on the extreme outerend of the hub ofthe rear wheel of the wagon, on the same side thereof'to which the block H, 85e. is attached. Belts L, provided with suitable teeth or projections I, connect the stepped pulley K with the pulleys P P P2. These belts L are arranged in planes of different elevations. The lower pulleys around which the belts L pass are made larger as the series progresses upward, the lower pulleys being the smallest, the next ones somewhat larger, and the'next still larger, so that the lowermost belt will move the slowest, the next a little faster, and the uppermost one still faster, and thus ou, using as few or as many belts as may be desired.

In practice as the team moves forward the corn is gathered in by the guard-arms ff' and brought against the knife or cutter G, and as the material is cut the heads of corn fall into the recess or elevating-trough, where said cut corn is caught by the fingers of the belt and carried into the wagon, and as the' uppermost belt moves faster than the lowerthe combination with a vertical supporting-4 frame provided with hooks for engaging the top edge of a wagon-box; a sliding frame connected with said supporting-frame; an inclined platform connected near its upper end with the upper endof said sliding frame and connected near its lower end with said sliding frame by an inclined removable bracernd; a hand-lever connected with said sliding frame for raising, lowering or maintaining it in its adjusted positions; a stepped block mounted on said inclined platform, movable upward and rearward and downward and forward in a vertical plane with said sliding frame and platform and provided with upper and lower sets of different -sized pulleys; toothed belts mounted on said pulleys; a concave fender mounted on the inclined platform and provided with a cutter and guard-ngers; and a sprocket chain belt, connecting a sprocket-pulley on said lower set of differentsized pulleys with a sprocket-wheel on the eX- treme outer end of the hub of one of the rear wheels of the wagon, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of'two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH ULMSTEAD FRY.

Witnessesz P. W. CRAIG, J. T. HoBAUeH. 

